LORINC: The digs of R.C. Harris

Anyone venturing by the Queen Street side of Old City Hall in the past couple of weeks may have noticed a small new plaque in front of... Read More

Student Housing as a Response to the Housing Crisis

The global housing crisis is a challenging and multi-faceted problem. Part of the solution, already successfully employed by... Read More

Written by Richard Weston (Laurence King Publishing, 2020) This book’s title poses two obvious questions: what is an architectural... Read More

Toronto

Doug Taylor, one of Toronto’s local historians, died recently at the age of 82. I got to know Doug because we were both among the... Read More

Author: Emily Anthes, Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2020) We spend most of our lives in buildings. According to... Read More

Toronto

Hidden amongst the shrubs of one of Toronto’s best-loved parks lies a collection of architectural ruins – carved stones – recently... Read More

Authors: Cesare Leonardi & Franca Stagi (Princeton Architectural Press, 2019) In Italy, most architects know this book and have... Read More

Toronto

In this episode, Natasha Henry, president of the Ontario Black History Society, tells us about the importance of August 1st... Read More

Toronto

One of the things I started looking out for on my local walks during the our locked-down pandemic spring (in addition to former corner... Read More

Author: Mark Hewitt (ORO Editions, 2020) Visualizing one’s ideas is a well known standard in the design fields. Thinking visually is... Read More